Churn



M. BYARD.

Churn.

Patented Octl 3V 41857.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MOSES BYARD, OF MILAN, INDIANA.

CHURN.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,384, dated October 13, 1857.

To all whom t may Concern:

Be it known that I, Moses BYARD, of Milan, in the county of Ripley and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Churns; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and eX- act description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, Figure 1, being a plan of the churn, the cover being removed; Fig. 2, a transverse section thereof, in the plane indicated by the line w Fig. 1.

Like letters designate corresponding parts in both figures.

The parts necessary to the churning and gathering of the butter are placed in a box or vessel of any convenient construction. Upon the driving shaft A, is a hollow cylindrical vessel or gatherer B, secured in any convenient manner, concentrically around said shaft, with which it revolves. At one side of the gatherer there is a spiral opening, or mouth a, formed substantially as represented in Fig. 2, by which means a passage is left to the interior of the said vessel. At suitable distances apart in the surface of the gatherer, are long, narrow openings b, b, arranged in the direction of its periphery, as represented in the drawings. This peculiar shape of the openings b, b, .is necessary in order to keep them from being lled or clogged with the butter as the gatherer is revolved. In one end of the gatherer may be a removable head f, which slides over the shaft A, and fits closely in the open end of the said gatherer. Its use is to give support to the end of the cylindrical vessel. On the shaft A, is a cog- Wheel D, to which one end of the cylindrical gatherer is attached. The said wheel gears into pinions E, E, E, below it. A shaft passes through each of these pinions, on which is a dash C, for the purpose of agitating the cream. The number of these dashes may be indeiininte, consisting of one, two, or more, as occasion may require.

As soon as the butter is churned, it is collected by the revolutions of the gatherer B, into its interior through the spiral opening a; and the buttermilk that is separated from it is allowed to escape through the openings b, b. Vhen it is desirable to remove the butter, the cylindrical vessel may be taken from the churn body, the removable head f, removed, when it can easily be taken out.

What I claim as my invention, is-

The cylindrical vessel B, or its equivalent, with a spiral opening or mouth in one side, and small oblong openings in its periphery, arranged and operating substantially in the manner and for the purpose herein specied.

In witness that the above is true specification of my improved churn, I hereunto set my hand this 28th day of July, 1857.

MOSES BYARD.

Witnesses:

HENRY B. HOFFMAN, J. S. BROWN. 

